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DBMS > Heroic vs. Kinetica vs. Netezza vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Kinetica vs. Netezza vs. TerarkDB

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score10.18
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#377  Overall
#58  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.kinetica.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzagithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.kinetica.combytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperSpotifyKineticaIBMByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2014201220002016
Current release7.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infoincluded in appliance
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesno
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyesno
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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HeroicKineticaNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBMTerarkDB
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